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CATALOGUE

OF

OXFORD SEMINARY,

OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA.

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1903-1904.

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Board of Directors.

F. P. Hobgood, President.

Dr. E. T. White, Vice-President.

J. H. Long, Secretary and Treasurer.

Gen. B. S. Royster, Attorney.

F. W. Hancock, J. S. Brown,

J. F. Edwards, Z. W. Lyon,

W. Z. Mitchell, Major W. Landis,

Dr. J. G. Hunt, S. W. Parker,

W. B. Ballou.

Calendar.

Session opens Wednesday, September 7, 1904.

Session closes May 23, 1905.

Spring Term opens January 1, 1905.

Teachers and Officers.

1904-1905.

F. P. HOBGOOD President

MRS. S. D. TWITTY Associate Principal

MRS. F. P. HOBGOOD Sup't Domestic Dep't

MISS RELL ROBESON Ass't in Domestic Dep't

MRS. KATE MEADOWS Matron

F. P. HOBGOOD, A.M.,

LATIN AND MORAL SCIENCE.

MRS. M. A. LACY,

Graduate Irving Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; Post-graduate student

Roanoke Female College, Danville, Va. ; Nine years teacher in public

schools of Halifax, Va. ; Four years in graded schools ; Five years

Principal of South Boston Female Institute, Va.; Six years teacher,

two years Vice-Principal of Roanoke Female College, Danville, Va.

Ten years teacher in Oxford Seminary

FRENCH AND MATHEMATICS.

MRS. S. D. TWITTY,

Graduate Warrenton Female College; Studied at Patapsco Institute,

Baltimore; Several years co-principal Warren High School; Four

years Lady Principal of Wilson Collegiate Institute, N. C; Fouryears Lady Principal of Luray Institute, Va.

Fourteen years Lady Principal Oxford Seminary.

ENGLISH.

MISS LILY EGBERT,

Graduate of Richmond High School, Va. ; B.A. of Randolph-MaconWoman's College, Lynchburg, Va.; One year teacher in Middleburg

Institute, Va.

Four years in Oxford Seminary.

NATURAL SCIENCE.

MISS LILLIE GRANDY,Full graduate Hollins Institute, Va. ; Studied at Cornell University,

New York; Six years teacher in Oxford Seminary.

ENGLISH AND HISTORY.

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Oxford Seminary.

MISS JESSIE HOBGOOD,

B.A. Oxford Seminary.

ASSISTANT IN ENGLISH.

MISS JANIE LACY,

B.A. of Oxford Seminary,

Four years teacher in Oxford Seminary.

ENGLISH.

MISS HALLIE E. TAURMAN,Pupil of Stebbins, of New York.

ELOCUTION.

MISS JESSIE HOBGOOD,

PHYSICAL CULTURE.

Conservatory of Music.

MISS HALLIE TAURMAN, Director,

Medalist in Voice and Piano of Woman's College, Richmond, Va.

;

Pupil in Piano of Mills and Parsons, of New York, four years; Pupil

in Voice of Tamaro and Suffern, of New York, four years ; Four years

Director of Music of Broaddus Female College, Va.

Five years Director of Music of Oxford Seminary.

PIANO, VOICE, HARMONY, HISTORY.

MISS EDNA HUDSON,

B.A. of Oxford Seminary; Music graduate of Oxford Seminary.

Five years teacher of Music in Oxford Seminary.

PIANO.

MISS EDITH LEVIN,

Pupil of S. B. Mills, Clarence Sage, Gonzalo Nunez, all of New YorkCity.

PIANO.

School of Art.

MISS EDITH LEVIN,

Graduate of Cooper Union Art School of New York; Studied under

Bruce Crane, Appleton Clark, Howard Chandlery Christy, and other

New York masters.

MISS JANIE LACY,

President's Stenographer and teacher of Stenography and Typewrit-

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Oxford Seminary.

History.

For fifty-five years there has been in Oxford a College

under Baptist auspices for the education of girls. Thefirst President was Kev. S. Wait, D.D., the founder and

first President of Wake Forest College, who was succeeded

in 1857 hy Mr. J. H. Mills, who conducted the school till

1868. For twelve years it was continued under different

managements till 1880, when the present President was

called to take charge. Prom that time till the present it

has enjoyed almost uninterrupted success, its rooms having

been filled to their utmost capacity on January 18, when

the buildings were destroyed by fire.

In February, 1904, a corporation was organized for

rebuilding it on a larger and more enduring basis. This

corporation obtained a charter with an authorized capital

of fifty thousand dollars.

It is a source of deep gratification to its President, who

up to the time of the organization of this corporation, was

its proprietor, that the Seminary to whose interests he has

given twenty-four years of his life, is now entering upon

a wider sphere of usefulness that shall be without limit of

time.

Location.

Oxford realizes one's ideal of a seat of learning. It is

confessedly one of the prettiest towns in ]^orth Carolina.

The presence in it, for more than three-quarters of a

century, of schools of high grade has developed an unusual

degree of culture and refinement in its citizens.

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Nature has furnished here in abundance the conditions

of health—pure air, good water, and mild but invigorating

climate—and the town is used by many people from mala-

rial regions as a summer resort.

The town has a population of nearly 3,000, and is acces-

sible from all directions, being connected with both the

Seaboard Air Line and the Southern, the two largest rail-

road systems of the State. Pupils living on either one of

these lines can purchase tickets and check baggage to Ox-

ford. The station of the Seaboard is three squares from

the Seminary, that of the Southern six. The Southern

Express Company and the Western Union Telegraph Com-

pany have offices here. A telephone system is also oper-

ated, connecting with many towns in the State.

Buildings and Grounds.

Four buildings now stand in place of the one building

destroyed by fire on January 18, These buildings are

ideal in their arrangement.

They are 39 by 85, just two stories high, and stand 35

feet apart, with their fronts connected by porches and

covered verandas.

They are lighted with electricity or gas, supplied with

bot and cold water, bath-rooms, closets, and are heated by

improved modern appliances.

The second story of each building is appropriated to

dormitories that are designed for two occupants only, and

are sufficient in number to accommodate one hundred and

six boarding students, the teachers and the President's

family. Each building is provided with a front and a rear

exit, and is thus absolutely safe. These two-story build-

ings have this additional advantage that our pupils do not

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find it necessary to climb several flights of stairs to reach

their sleeping rooms, as is the case in three- and four-story

buildings.

The first floor of each building is devoted to special

purposes.

The first floor of the Music Building contains two large

halls for the use of the Calliopean and TJranian Literary

Societies, and fourteen music rooms.

The first floor of the Chapel Building contains a Li-

brary, double Parlors, and a Chapel beautiful in its design

and construction.

The first floor of the Recitation Building contains six

large Class Booms, a Studio of most approved design, and

a Laboratory 15 by 40, fitted up with experiment tables

that are furnished with gas and water.

The first floor of the Administration Building contains

a handsome Dining Boom, the President's Study and

apartments for his family.

New Equipment.

The equipment in all departments will be largely new,

to replace the losses of the fire.

Thirty bedroom suites will be purchased, consisting of

white enameled bedsteads and springs, oak dressers and

washstands.

Five new upright pianos will be added to the nine that

were saved. The equipment of the Music Department will

thus be all that could be desired.

The entire outfit of the Scientific Department having

been lost, new, larger and better apparatus will be in-

stalled for the study of Physical Geography, Biology,

Physics and Chemistry. The new Laboratory is complete

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in all its appointments; and the interest heretofore awak-

ened in the study of science by the introduction of the

laboratory method will doubtless be increased.

The Reading Room in the Chapel Building is comfort-

ably furnished, and its tables are supplied with newspapers

and magazines, while its book-cases contain a large num-

ber of well-selected volumes.

The new Studio is a beautiful room, 25 by 15 feet,

lighted by two large northern windows, each 10 feet

in width by 8 feet in height. The walls will be left rough,

"under the trowel," cream-colored, making a beautiful

background for the new equipment of ivory-tinted casts

and Prang models and ceramics.

The grounds, comprising several acres, are richly and

tastefully decorated with shade trees, evergreens and

flowering shrubs.

Domestic Government.

The design of the President is to surround the pupils,

while under his care, with such influences as tend to culti-

vate taste, refine and polish manners, develop and strength-

en the spiritual sense, and fit them to occupy with ease and

grace every department of social and domestic life.

Whether in sickness or in health, they will receive every

attention that they could have were they at their homes.

They are members of a large family, and we strive to make

them comfortable and happy while they are securing their

education. No stringent rules or unnecessary restrictions

are placed upon them. The appeal is always to the moral

sense, and government is without rules as far as possible.

Ladylike conduct at all times is expected—neatness and

order everywhere, and uniform courtesy toward others

enjoined.

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An extensive correspondence is not desirable, but they

are expected to write home at least once a week. In these

letters, which are never subject to inspection, they are en-

couraged to write fully and freely concerning all school

matters that are of interest to them, and we invite our

patrons to correspond freely with us on any matters of In-

terest to their daughters. We stand during the session in

the place of parents, and we need their aid in every way to

discharge the duties of this responsible relation.

Correspondence with gentlemen other than relatives is

not allowed, except on written request of parents.

Visits to them from friends and relatives should be so

arranged as not to conflict with their hours of study and

recitation. Visits from gentlemen will be permitted only

on the written request of parents.

The Lady Principal is charged with the general over-

sight of their home life, and her time is freely given to

their interests. All matters pertaining to their welfare

will receive her careful attention, and parents may rest

assured that she will take their place in bestowing all those

delicate and important attentions that belong to mothers,

whom she desires to communicate freely with her.

Health and Physical Culture.

Good health, important to every one, is especially so to

woman. This is steadily kept in view in the furnishing

and all the regulations of the Seminary. The hours of

study and recitation, rising and retiring, exercise and

recreation have been arranged with reference to preserva-

tion of body as well as mind in a state of sound and vigor-

ous health.

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In favorable weather, all, unless physically unable, are

required to take the usual afternoon walk.

The beautiful lawn of several acres invites to outdoor

life.

As a pleasant indoor exercise, adapted to promote grace-

fulness of bearing and movement, a system of Physical

Culture, with suitable apparatus, is used.

Tennis and Basket Ball courts are provided, securing

healthful outdoor exercise.

Infirmary.

For the proper care and treatment of sick pupils, two

rooms are set apart for an infirmary, one for the sick, the

other for convalescents, and are fitted up with hospital beds.

These are under the supervision; of a lady of refinement and

experience in attending the sick. All who' are not well

enough to attend to their school duties are required to re-

main under her care until they are restored to their usual

health. Meals are not served in the sleeping-rooms, but are

sent to the infirmary for those who are not able to go to the

dining-room.

In cases of serious illness, the best medical skill of the

town is secured, and parents are promptly notified. They

need never feel uneasy about their daughters until they

hear from the President that there is occasion for uneasi-

ness.

Religious Duties.

All are required to be present at Chapel service every

morning, and to take part in suitable devotional exercises.

These consist of hymns, reading of Scriptures in concert,

and prayer.

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On Sunday boarding students have Bible lessons at the

Seminary and attend divine service at the Baptist Church.

Those not members of the Baptist Church are permitted

to attend Sunday School and divine service at their ownchurches in the morning. At night attendance at any

church is optional.

The exercises of the Maggie ISTutt Missionary Society

and a well-attended weekly students' prayer-meeting aid in

giving tone to the spiritual life of the school.

School of the Bible.

Need of greater knowledge of the Bible on the part of

young women for their equipment for the work which they

are to do in their homes, and in their churches and Sunday

Schools, as well as for the growth of the Kingdom within

their own hearts, has long been felt by Christian men and

women. This need is supplied here by systematic study

of the Bible. Two lessons a week required of every stu-

dent during her entire course give a comprehensive and

thorough knowledge of the contents of the Book. We have

sought to place the study of this Book above that of every

other by making it voluntary. All students are required

to attend recitations, but they are not graded on these,

neither is the completion of this Bible course essential to

obtaining a Diploma from the Seminary.

The Blakeslee System is used. During the past year two

classes were engaged in studying the Life of Christ, one in

studying the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul,

while one studied Old Testament History.

Course of Study.

This comprises Preparatory and Collegiate Depart-

ments.

Preparatory Department.

Mrs. Twittt.

Swinton's Speller; Supplementary Reading; Maury's

Geographies ; Eggleston's United States History ; Colaw

and Ellwood's Arithmetic; Language Lessons; Nature

Work ; Latin begun.

The text-hooks and the whole course of instruction are

made to bear upon the advanced course of the pupil.

Collegiate Department.

The studies in this department are distributed into the

following schools:

1. English.

2. Latin Language and Literature.

3. Modern Languages.

4. Mathematics.

5. Natural Science.

6. Moral Science.

7. History.

School of English Language and Literature.

Miss Gkandy.

Eiest Year.—Reed and Kellogg's Higher Lessons;

Reed's Study of Words ; Irving's Alhambra ; Hawthorne's

Snow Image; Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.

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Second Year.—Whitney's Essentials of English Gram-

mar; Genung's Outlines of Rhetoric. The students of

this course make a special study of the sentence, based on

Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth; Buskin's King of the

Golden River.

Third Year.—Pancoast's American Literature with

selected readings from Irving, Bryant, Poe, Longfellow,

Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lanier; Genung's

Practical Rhetoric with paragraph work based on Irving's

Sketch Book, and a study of figures of speech from Long-

fellow's Evangeline.

Eourth Year.— Pancoast's Introduction to English

Literature, with selections from English writers.

This course includes a careful study of the rise and de-

velopment of English Literature, for which parallel work

in English History is required ; a brief survey of the writ-

ers from Chaucer to Browning to acquaint the student with

the principal facts of their lives and the names, character,

and influence of their greatest works. To supplement this

a careful and systematic study by means of lecture, parallel

reading and essays is made of Shakespeare, Milton, Tenny-

son, and George Eliot.

For obvious reasons this School holds a conspicuous

place in the course of study, and students are furnished

every facility for its successful prosecution.

In spelling, the jn'inciples of orthography and the form-

ation and derivation of words are insisted upon. Every

pupil has four lessons a week until the course in spelling

is completed.

In Grammar, the study of both the structure and the

classics of the language secures accurate and practical

knowledge.

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In Rhetoric, there are frequent written exercises which

apply and impress the principles.

Much attention is given to composition. Original essays

are required every two weeks. These essays are corrected

before the class, and errors of punctuation, spelling, gram-

mar and rhetoric are pointed out.

School of Latin.

Mr. Hobgood.

First Year.— Easy Latin Method— Lindsay-Rollins

;

Bennet's Grammar.

Second Year.—Viri Romas ; Ovid ; Bennet's Grammar.

Third Year,.—Virgil's ^Eneid ; Cicero's Orations ; Ar-

nold's Prose Composition.

Fourth Year.—Horace; Cicero's de Senectute, de

Amicitia ; Cicero's Letters ; Arnold's Prose Composition

;

Original Exercises.

A thorough study of the Hexameter Verse and of the

Horatian Metres is made.

Frequent exercise in translating English into Latin call

attention to the idioms of both languages.

Varied and extensive readings of the classics, with fre-

quent written translations, contribute to the formation of

correct taste and chaste style.

Throughout the course attention is given to Roman His-

tory and Literature, Mythology and Antiquities.

School of Modern Languages.

Mrs. Lacy.

French.

First Year.— Chardenal's Complete Course ; Easy

Selections in Reading.

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Second Yeae.—Chardenal's Complete Course; Super's

French. Reader ; Selections from Modern Writers.

Thied Yeae.— Edgren's Grammar ; Selections from

Corneille, Moliere, Racine ; Original Exercises ; Poems

Memorized and Analysis of Metrical Forms ; Critical Ex-

amination of Style.

German.

Fiest Year.— Studien und Plauderein, and Harris'

Grammar.

Second Yeae.—Whitney's Grammar, Whitney's Read-

er, and Anderson's Bilderbuch ohne Bilder; Lessing's

Minna von Barnhelm.

Thied Yeae.—Whitney's Grammar; Schiller's Maria

Stuart, and selections from Goethe's Prose.

School of Mathematics.

Mbs. Lacy. Miss Egbert.

Fiest Yeae.—Colaw and Ellwood's Arithmetic; Col-

burn's Mental.

Second Yeae.—Fischer and Schwatt's Algebra.

Thied Yeae.—Algebra completed.

Fouetu Year.—Phillips and Fisher's Plane and Solid

Geometry.

Fifth Yeae.—Wentworth's Plane Trigonometry.

A course of one year in Arithmetic is provided for stu-

dents who are not prepared to begin Algebra. In this

course much attention is given to the study of Mental

Arithmetic as affording the best mental discipline.

The Senior Class review Arithmetic.

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School of Natural Science.

Miss Egbert.

First Year.—Dryer's Lessons in Physical Geography

;

Hutchinson's Physiology.

In the study of Physiology, which is made as practical

as possible, invaluable aid is rendered by a complete set of

Anatomical Charts. Much attention is likewise given to

dissection.

Second Year.—Biology. This course in General Bi-

ology, extending through the entire year, consists in labora-

tory work, lectures, and parallel reading.

Personal investigation precedes the study of the text-

book, thus developing in the student the power of independ-

ent observation. The laboratory guide used consists essen-

tially of questions on the gross and minute structure, and

on the physiology of a series of typical animals and plants

—questions which cau be answered only by actually ex-

amining the specimens, or by performing the experiments.

The laboratory is well provided with reagents, compound

microscopes and other pieces of apparatus necessary for a

helpful and thorough study of this important subject.

Text-Books.—Orton's Comparative Zoology, Leavitt's

Botany.

Books of Reference.— Lodge's Laboratory Guide,

Huxley & Martin's Elementary Biology, Gray's Botanies,

Bergen's Elements of Botany; Lubbock's Flowers, Fruits

and Leaves ; Geddes' Lessons in Modern Botany ; Darwin's

Origin of the Species ; Darwin's Insectivorous Plants.

Laboratory Fee, $2.

Third Year.—Avery's Physics; Remsen's Chemistry.

Individual experimental work under the teacher's super-

vision, is required in both Physics and Chemistry. No3

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labor or expense lias been spared in refitting the laboratory

after the most approved modern methods. Individual

desks, supplied with water, gas and apparatus, are provided

for a large class.

A laboratory fee of $3 is charged for Physics, and an

equal sum for Chemistry. The sums are just sufficient to

cover the expense of chemicals used and the wear and tear

and breakage of apparatus.

A series of lectures will be given on the history of Phy-

sics and Chemistry, and on the lives of those who have

developed these two sciences.

In this department work from other schools will not be

accepted unless the student has had a good course in Lab-

oratory work.

School of Moral Science.

Mb. Hobgood.

One Year.—Davis' Psychology ; Jevons' Logic.

Second Year.—Ethics—Davis.

School of History.

Miss Geandy.

First Year.—United States History—Eggleston.

Second Year.—Leading Facts of English History

—

Montgomery; Leading Facts of French History—Mont-

gomery.

Third Year.—General History—Myers; Our Govern-

ment—Finger.

Throughout the course maps are extensively used.

In the second year the text-book is supplemented by lec-

tures and in the third year by lectures, extensive parallel

reading, and original papers.

Conservatory of Music.

Miss Taueman, Miss Hudson, Miss Levin.

Instrumental.

Preparatory.—The Elements of Music and Pianoforte

Playing by Albert Ross Parsons and Kate S. Chittenden

;

Prepartory Scale Studies; Mason's Technic; Easy Pieces

by Lorr, Lange, Reinecke, Gurlet ; Melody Playing—Mac-

Dougal.

First Year.—Lceschorn, Op. 65 ; Matthews' Graded

Studies; Scale Studies; Sonatinen by Clementi, Kuhlau,

Kohler, Reinecke ; Pieces from the best modern composers.

Second Year.—Harmony ; Scale, Arpeggio, Chord and

Octave Studies; Bach's Easier Pieces; Heller's Etudes;

Selections from best composers, classic and modern.

Third Year.—Harmony; Cramer's Etudes (von Bu-

low) ; Lceschorn's Octave Studies ; Bach's Inventions

;

Beethoven's Sonatas ; Selections from Chopin, Rubinstein,

and others.

Fourth Year.—Counterpoint; Musical History and

Biography; Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum; Bach's

Preludes and Fugues ; Moscheles' Studies ; Chopin's

Etudes ; Concertos by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others.

Instruction is given in this department according to the

Synthetic Method.

The aim of the work is to train both the fingers and the

brain, and from the beginning it is sought at the same time

to develop technical skill, and to cultivate an understand-

ing of musical language.

In all classes it is required that careful attention be paid

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to technique as a means of expression. With this object

in view, numerous exercises are given for the acquiring of

every variety of touch necessary for the expression of musi-

cal ideas.

Special studies for the correct use of pedal are continued

throughout the course.

Vocal Music.

Miss Taukmajst.

First Year.—Lessons in Breathing and Production of

Tone; Easy Solfeggios and Exercises—Concone; Delle

Sedie's Method of Singing; Easy Songs of Abt, Cowen,

Meyer-Helmund.

Second Year.—Study of Intervals with Portamento,

Solfeggios, and Studies of Delle Sedie, Panofka and

others ; English Ballads, Songs of Schubert and Mendel-

ssohn ; Sacred Songs.

Third Year.—Development of Volume and Flexibility

of the Voice ; Songs from Grieg, Jensen, Lassen, Franz,

Brahms, Rubinstein and Schumann ; Arias and Cavatinas,

from English, French, Italian and German Operas. Selec-

tions from the Oratorios— Haydn's creation, Mendel-

ssohn's Elijah and Handel's Messiah.

Pupils seeking a diploma in the School of Vocal Music

are required to make a thorough study of the Piano, with

Harmony and History of Music.

Phonetic singing, the vocal tone according to its phonic

conditions, as taught by the celebrated Delle Sedie of Paris,

is the basis of the whole course in voice culture, and special

pains is taken to insure a pure tone production, a perfect

legato and distinct enunciation. A great deal of attention

is given to tone-coloring, style and expression.

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School of Art.

Miss Edith Levin.

The regular course in Drawing and Painting embraces

four years.

First Year.—Elementary work in Charcoal, Pencil or

Crayon; Geometrical Figures from Casts; Drawing from

the Antique— Hands, Feet, Busts and Statues ; Per-

spective.

Second Year.—Still-life Studies in Oil or Pastel;

Painting from Nature; Perspective.

Third Year.—Drawing from life, and Charcoal work

from the Antique; Designing; Pen and Ink Illustrations

from life; Painting in Oil; Pastel, Water Colors.

Fourth Year.—Painting from Nature ; Drawing from

Life; Composition; Art History.

An examination in the principles of drawing must pre-

cede work in colors.

Diplomas as graduates in Art are given to those who on

completing the course present creditable original work.

Those who have only limited time to give to the study

of Art are advised to take the Prang Course in Drawing

for Graded Schools.

The Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools con-

sists of a systematic training, beginning with easy and

finishing with more difficult subjects in

representation—Spheric, cubic, cylindric models and objects—Grasses,

Seedlings, Fruits, Vegetables ; Leaves and Flowers ; Fa-

miliar Objects; Pose Drawing.

decoration.

Historic Figures and Borders, and Original Arrange-

ment: Color.

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construction.

Patterns, Views, Making Models and Objects from Pat-

terns. Constructive Design.

The course covers one session, one period daily.

School of Elocution.

Miss Taurman.

Junior Class.— Primer of Elocution—Southwick.

Culture of the Voice, Pitch, Emphasis, Counterpoint. Se-

lections from Longfellow, Scott, Owen, and Meredith,

studied and recited.

Senior Class.—The Delsarte System of Expression

—

Stebbins; Analysis, Inflection; Study of the Qualities of

the Voice, of the Emotions and Mechanics. ; Posings ; Selec-

tions from Victor Hugo, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Bar-

rett Browning, Shakespeare and others, studied and re-

cited.

All instruction will be given according to the Delsarte

principles of Expression. Genevieve Stebbins, with whomour teacher studied, is one of the foremost exponents of the

Delsarte System in America. Her work on the subject, as

shown above, will be the text-book.

Business Course.

Miss Lacy.

This consists of Bookkeeping, Stenography and Type-

writing. Young ladies desiring to prepare themselves for

business positions will do well to take this course here.

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Calliopean and Uranian Literary Societies.

The large number of students in attendance the last two

years made necessary the organization of another Society.

The new Society took the name Uranian.

In the Music Building two large halls for the use of

these Societies have been provided, and these have been

handsomely furnished by the former students and their

friends. Handsome velvet carpets, rugs, curtains, Presi-

dent's and Secretary's desks and comfortable chairs are

provided at a cost of four or five hundred dollars.

These Societies hold weekly meetings, and their exer-

cises consist in music, in debating, and in reading original

compositions. It is not doubted that with these handsome

halls a new impetus will be given to Society work.

At the close of the session the two unite in inviting a

distinguished speaker to deliver an address before them.

Maggie Nutt Missionary Society.

For cultivating a deeper interest in the progress of the

Gospel in pagan lands, and for developing a more earnest

religious spirit in their own hearts, a Missionary Society

for several years has existed among the students. The

Society is named in honor of the late Mrs. Maggie Nutt

Herring, one of the alumnas of the Seminary. The mem-bership is large, the meetings interesting, instructive and

spiritual, and the contributions aid in spreading the

Gospel.

The Seminary has sent out to the foreign field four

splendid missionaries.

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Examinations.

Frequent written examinations are required. If the

average result of these examinations is seventy-five per

cent, the student is entitled to certificate of proficiency.

If a student who is a candidate for a Diploma should

fail to receive the required seventy-five hundredths at her

examination, she must repeat the study upon which she has

failed before she will be allowed to take up the next in

order in the course.

Certificates.

Pupils who complete the studies of any one of the seven

schools receive Certificates of Proficiency in that school.

These Certificates are awarded on Commencement Day.

Those who complete the Prang Course in Drawing re-

ceive Certificates.

Degrees.

Those who complete the studies of the Schools of Eng-

lish, Latin, Modern Languages (French or German),

Mathematics, Natural Science, Moral Science, and History

receive the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Those who complete the Schools of English and Science,

the School of French through the intermediate year, the

School of Latin through the third year, the School of His-

tory through the second year, the School of Mathematics

through the fourth year, receive the degree of Bachelor of

Letters.

Those who complete the course prescribed in Music or

Art receive Diplomas as Graduates in these schools.

Oxford Seminary. 25

Every student applying for a Diploma as B. A. must

review English. Grammar and Arithmetic during the last

year of her course, unless upon examination this should be

seen to be unnecessary.

Students are advised against attempting to complete the

course in one year from their entrance.

Distinctions.

A student whose average sessional mark, combined with

the mark obtained on the examination, is ninety-five per

cent of the maximum grade, is announced upon Com-

mencement Day as having won First Distinction.

Reports.

A daily record of recitations is kept, and reports of pro-

gress and deportment are sent to parents. These reports

should be carefully examined and commendation or reproof

based upon them will greatly influence the conduct of stu-

dents a^cl incite them to diligence and study. As an addi-

tional means of inciting to diligence, these reports are read

in the presence of the School before transmission to parents.

Golden Reports.

Reports in which the average of scholarship is ninety-

five per cent of the maximum grade are called Golden Re-

ports, and are printed in golden type. These are obtain-

able by pupils of every grade in the school. In awarding

this honor, regard is had also to Deportment, which musthave been perfect.

4

26 Oxford Seminary.

Charges.

For Annual Session beginning September 7, 1904, and

ending May 23, 1905.

Necessary expenses of a boarding student for the annual

session

:

Board, furnished room, fuel, lights, full English Course,

with Latin and French $142 . 50

EXTRA AND OPTIONAL.

Piano Music from Director 45 . 00

Vocal Music ( same number of lessons as in piano ) . . .

.

45 . 00

Piano Music from assistants 40 . 00

Harmony 20 . 00

Use of Piano for practice ( 1% hours per day ) 5.00

Art 40.00

Elocution in class 20 . 00

Elocution in class and one private lesson a week addi-

tional 35.00

Typewriting 10 . 00

Stenography 30 . 00

The two 35.00

The Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools 10.00

Pupils have the option of giving one-half the time to

Instrumental and one-half to Vocal at the charge for In-

strumental.

These charges are payable quarterly in advance as fol-

lows: September 7, 1901, November 1, 1904, January 1,

1905, March 15, 1905.

The first payment may be deferred till November 1st by

patrons who give good references.

Entrance is supposed to be for the entire annual session,

unless a shorter period is agreed upon.

In case of the necessary withdrawal of the pupil from

school on account of her sickness, she will be charged only

for the time of her stay here, and the balance of the money

will be refunded.

Oxford Seminary. 27

On January 1, 1905, new students will find classes

suited to their wants.

Books must be paid for in advance. Sheet Music and

Drawing and Painting Materials will be furnished at

usual prices. Bills for these will be rendered quarterly.

Accepted drafts at thirty or sixty days on commission

merchants will be received instead of currency, the patron

paying the discount.

A discount of fifty per cent from the charges for tuition

in Literary Course will be made to the daughters of minisr

ters who live by the ministry.

Deduction is made for absence on account of sickness

extending through a period of three weeks; and when

pupils are withdrawn on any other grounds they will be

charged to the end of the session. This rule applies to day

pupils and to those boarding pupils who, on account of sick-

ness, leave the Seminary. As no charge is made for nurs-

ing boarders when sick, deduction is not made for their

absence from their classes.

Aid will be extended to meritorious young ladies unable

to pay their expenses. Application for this aid must be

accompanied by a candid statement of the financial condi-

tion of the applicants, and of their advancement in their

studies.

Miscellaneous.

Towels, table napkins, one pair of blankets, one pair of

sheets, one pair of pillowcases, one white counterpane, must

be furnished by the student ; and these, with every article

of clothing, must be marked with her name. She must be

provided also with an umbrella, a pair of overshoes, suit-

able outdoor wraps, and a suit for physical culture which

will not cost more than $2.50.

28 Oxford Seminary.

Money may be sent by Post-Office Order, Registered

Letter, Express or Draft. Express charges must be pre-

paid.

Parents are expected to co-operate with the teachers in

efforts to repress the tendency to unnecessary expenditure

of money. Punning accounts at the stores are not allowed,

and all purchases are carefully superintended by the

Matron.

The number of garments to be laundried is limited to

sixteen plain pieces, besides bed linen, towels and napkins.

The price for laundering is one dollar per month.

Teachers Supplied.

The demand for the graduates and other pupils of the

Seminary as teachers is so great that the President finds

but little difficulty in securing good situations for all whomhe can recommend. Many of them are filling prominent

positions, and a few are now seeking positions whom the

President can recommend.

Uniform Dress.

For the sake of economy and appearance, and to prevent

rivalry, uniformity of dress is required. The uniform

dress will be a black coat suit, trimmed only with buttons

and stitching. Pupils may provide themselves with this

dress before entering school, if preferred.

The academic cap will be worn with the uniform, and

will be furnished at a moderate cost at the school.

The Senior Class wear the academic cap and gown.

The graduates are required to wear plain white muslin

dresses on the occasion of graduating. These, with their

uniform dress, are all that will be allowed at Commence-

ment.

Oxford Seminary. 29

General Regulations.

These regulations, which our experience has found to be

essential to the comfort, safety and proper training of girls,

are published. Others are announced as occasion requires.

Too many become burdensome and useless. Moreover,

our system of government rests mainly on appeals to the

moral sense.

Cheerful obedience must be rendered to the officers.

Ladylike conduct at all times must be observed.

There must be a prompt response to all the bells.

The sleeping rooms are to be put in good order every

day, and the furniture carelessly broken is to be replaced.

Strict order is to be kept on Sunday.

Pupils are required to write home at least once a week.

Neither the walls nor furniture must be defaced with

pencil marks or otherwise.

Visitors are not to be received in the sleeping rooms.

Rooms must not be changed without permission.

Borrowing clothing and jewelry is prohibited.

Clothing must be marked with the name of the owner.

The ink-wells are not to be taken from the desks.

Reading and text-books must not be taken to the music-

rooms during practice hours.

Eating at unseasonable hours and spending the night

out of the Seminary are prohibited.

Boisterous laughing and loud talking in the building, on

the grounds, on the streets, or at the table must not be in-

dulged.

Correspondence with gentlemen, except by written re-

quest of parents, is not permitted.

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List of Students.

1903-1904.

Mamie Anderson S. S. Anderson Edgecombe Co.

Bettie Barwick Mrs. J. T. Barwiek Lenoir Co.

Foy Baucom G. U. Baucom Wake Co.

Lizzie Bennett Mrs. Bennett Warren Co.

Mary Bennette Mrs. A. W. Bennette. . .Robeson Co.

Grace Bland J. T. Bland Pender Co.

Mabel Bowen J. W. Bowen Pender Co.

Zillah Bridger R. L. Bridger Bladen Co.

Sadie Bridger R. L. Bridger Bladen Co.

Camelia Brooks J. D. Brooks Granville Co.

Pearle Browning Gaston Browning Wayne Co.

Sula Bboughton R. Broughton Granville Co.

Louise Buchanan L. Buchanan Granville Co.

Maude Buchanan L. Buchanan Granville Co.

Ethel Byrd R. W. Byrd Chatham Co.

Helen Chandler A. J. Chandler Mecklenburg Co., Va.

Pearl Cheatham D. T. Cheatham Granville Co., N. C.

Enna Cheek J. W. Cheek Orange Co., N. C.

Amelia Clayton Mrs. Emma Clayton. . .Granville Co., N. C.

Katie Cobb C. E. Cobb Lenoir Co., N. C.

Pearle Cobb Rev. J. W. Cobb Robeson Co., N. C.

Nita Cooper

Carrie Coxe J. S. Coxe Halifax Co., N. C.

Gertrude Cree Rev. A. Cree Warren Co., N. C.

Maggie Critcher Wm. Critcher Granville Co., N. C.

Mattte Critcher Wm. Critcher ....Granville Co., N. C.

Rowena Daniel W. B. Daniel Vance Co., N. C.

Mary Dean John Dean Granville Co., N. C.

Louise Elliott W. O. Elliott Chowan Co., N. C.

Blanche Ferebee Mrs. B. B. Ferebee Camden Co., X. C

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

N. C.

32 Oxford Seminary.

Lillian Fields J. T. Fields Lenoir Co., N. C.

Isabel Fleming Mrs. Kate Fleming Granville Co., N. C.

Essie Gardner J. L. Gardner Gates Co., N. C.

Maidie Gatling R. Gatling Gates Co., N. C.

Dora Grady Simeon Wooten Lenoir Co., N. C.

Mabel Goode Rev. J. M. Goode Cleveland Co., N. C.

Verna Goode Rev. J. M. Goode Cleveland Co., N. C.

Lizzie Hancock F. W. Hancock Granville Co., N. C.

Jennie Hardaway Rev. J. S. Hardaway Newnan, Ga.

Pearle Harper Mrs. Harper Wake Co., N. C.

Mrs. B. K. Hays Granville Co., N. C.

Idella Herring A. T. Herring Pender Co., N. C.

Bessie Hester B. F. Hester Granville Co., N. C.

Dixie Hester B. F. Hester Granville Co., N. C.

Nellie Horne Alex. Home Hertford Co., N. C.

Sallie House J. A. House Halifax Co., N. C.

Eugenia Humphries . . .Mrs. C. F. Humphries, Granville Co., N. C.

Daisey Huntley Mrs. Mamie Huntley Anson Co., N. C.

Ina Huntley Mrs. Mamie Huntley Anson Co., N. C.

Florence James Mrs. James Pender Co., N. C.

Vistula James Mrs. James Pender Co., N. C.

Annie Jenkins Jas. Jenkins Halifax Co., Va.

Mabel Jeter Mrs. L. B. Jeter Guilford Co., N. C.

Mabel Kelley J. A. Kelly Vance Co., N. C.

Hester Kent Dr. S. T. A. Kent Halifax Co., Va.

Alexine Knott Mrs. W. C. Allen Granville Co., N. C.

Ola Jones J. S. Jones Yadkin Co., N. C.

Huldah Latta II. H. Latta Granville Co., N. C.

Rosa Lawrence John Lawrence Granville Co., N. C.

Gertrude Landis Mrs. A. Landis Granville Co., N. C.

Lizzie Liles Anson Co., N. C.

Wilma Long W. G. Long Union Co., N. C.

Mamie Luther J. M. Luther Wake Co., N. C.

Oxford Seminary. 33

Jeilie Macmillan .

\ Jaebielena Mangum

!;)zella Mangtjm

Iettie Mize ....I

dlNNIE MOBING .

LjTJZIE Moss

jklAMIE O'BRIAN .

"tjla Olive

isabel parham:i

diss Parker . .

.

aIay Peele

. Iattie Peele .

,

ifESSIE PERKINSON

oora phipps . . .

:da Powell

I

Mamie Powell .

Mattie Eiggs .

.

jBallie Roller .

i Blanche Royall

! Mamie Royster .

Mabel Royster .

Sallie Royster

Burma Sanderford

Bertha Sawyer . .

.

Myrtle Shambebger

Annje Pearle Shore

4.nna speas . . .

Edna Spencer .

.

£da Stainback .

Mabel Stallings

IMaby Stevens .

.

Takie Stevens .

1ST. A. Macmillan Mullins, S. C.

II. D. Mangum Granville Co., N. C.

H. D. Mangum Granville Co., N. C.

J. A. Mize Granville Co., N. C.

F. 0. Moring Wake Co., N. C.

Mrs. B. F. Moss Halifax Co., N. C.

S. J. O'Brian Granville Co., N. C.

W. J Olive Cumberland Co., N. C.

A. C. Parham Granville Co., N. C.

Rev. R. E. Peele Marion Co., S. C.

Jackson Peele Bertie Co., N. C.

J. R. Perkinson Granville Co., N. C.

John Phipps Granville Co., N. C.

B. F. Powell Columbus Co., N. C,

R. J. Powell Caswell Co., N. C.

B. R. Riggs Person Co., N. C.

J. B. Roller Granville Co., N. C.

Dr. M. A. Royall Yadkin Co., N. C.

Gen. B. S. Royster .... Granville Co., N. C.

L. A. Royster Granville Co., N. C.

Mrs. T. S. Royster Granville Co., N. C.

Dr. J. F. Sanderford.. Granville Co., N. C.

E. Sawyer Pasquotank Co., N. C.

Rev. F. Shamberger . . Granville Co., N. C.

J. H. Shore. Yadkin Co., N. C.

Dr. J. L. Speas Yadkin Co., N. C.

Capt. T. A. Spencer . . . Granville Co., N. C.

P. N. Stainback Halifax Co., N. C.

G. B. H. Stallings Franklin Co., N. C.

X. W. Stevens Camden Co., N. C.

Mrs. Jones Camden Co., N. C.

34 Oxford Seminary.

Eloise Taylor L. K. Taylor Sampson Co., N. C.

Olivette Teale Mrs. Eugenia Teale Anson Co., N. C.

Anna Townsend S. R. Townsend Robeson Co., N. C.

Bessie Twyne Elisha Twyne Tyrrell Co., N. C.

Lizzie Teaynham Thos. Traynham Halifax Co., Va.

Mary Webb John Webb Granville Co., N. C.

Beatrice Willard M. F. Willard Halifax Co., Va.

Mary White D. B. White Warren Co., N. C.

Edna White Dr. E. T. White Granville Co., N. C.

Mary Whitaker Dr. H. H. Whitaker Nash Co., N. C.

Lilla Whitley J. A. Whitley Martin Co., N. C.

Lillian Williams J. D. Williams Granville Co., N. C.

Eva Wynne L. B. Wynne Martin Co., N. C.

Lillie Wynne L. B. Wynne Martin Co., N. C.

Helen Wynne Bertie Co., N". C.

Addie Wright L. T. Wright Camden Co., N". C.

Mary Wright Rev. Thos. Wright. . . .Richmond Co., N. C.

Annie Belle Yancey ... 0. Yancey Granville Co., N. C.

Ethel Yancey 0. Yancey Granville Co., N. C.

Carrie Youngblood .... 11. 1ST. Youngblood Johnson Co., N. C.

Michie Youngblood ....11. N. Youngblood Johnson Co., N. C.

Boarding students 97

Day 19

Oxford Seminary. 35

Mamie Anderson.Foy Baucom.Bcttie Barwiek.Grace Bland.Mabel Bowen.Zillah Bridger.

Sadie Bridger.

Camelia Brooks.Mary Brooks.Sula Broughton.Louise Buchanan.Luther Buchanan.Helen Chandler.Pearle Cheatham.Enna Cheek.Amelia Clayton.

Katie Cobb.Pearle Cobb.Nita Cooper.Carrie Coxe.Maggie Critcher.

Mattie Critcher.

Rowena Daniel.

Louise Buchanan.Pearle Cobb.Sallie House.

Louise Buchanan.Pearle Cobb.Lillian Fields.

Mary Bennette.Sula Broughton.Maude Buchanan.Ethel Byrd.Helen Chandler.

Essie Gardner.Mabel Jeter,

aula Olive.

Mary Brooks.Mary Bennette.

Piano Pupils.

Louise Elliott.

Lillian Fields.

Isabel Fleming.Essie Gardner.Lizzie Hancock.Mrs. B. K. Hays.Jennie Hardaway.Pearle Harper.Idella Herring.Dixie Hester.Nellie Home.Sallie House.Florence James.Vistula James.Annie Jenkins.Ola Jones.

Mabel Kelly.Janie Lacy.Gertrude Landis.Hdldah Latta.Carrielena Mangum.Ozella Mangum.Luzie Moss.

Harmony Pupils.

Gertrude Landis.Annie Pearle Shore.

Vocal Music.

Ola Jones.Mamie O'Brian.Ida Powell.

Art.

Enna Cheek.Katie Cobb.Maidie Gatling.Bessie Hester.Nellie Home.

Stenography.

Miss Parker.Miss Royster.

Elocution.

Lillian Fields.

Ola Jones.

Mamie O'Brian.Hattie Peele.

Jessie Perkinson.Ida Powell.Mattie Riggs.Blanche Royall.Mamie Royster.Sallie Royster.Burma Sanderford.Annie Pearl Shore.Anna Speas.Ida Stainback.Mabel Stallings.

Jakie Stevens.Mary Stevens.Eloise Taylor.Bessie Twyne.Mary Webb.Beatrice Willard.Mary W'hitaker.Edna White.Lilla Whitley.Addie Wright.

Eloise Taylor.Mary Whitaker.

Beatrice Willard.Lilla Whitley.Addie Wright.

Eugenia Humphries.Mamie Luther.lula Olive.

Hallie Roller.

Mamie Royster.

Ida Stainback.Lillian Williams.

Beatrice Willard.

36 Oxford Seminary.

Lizzie Hancock.

Lottie Barwick.CMila Broughton.Helen Chandler.Pearle Cheatham.Amelia Clayton.Katie Cobh.Pearle Cobb.Mary Dean.Bessie Hester.

Mamie Anderson.37oy Baucom.Mabel Bowen.Sadie Bridger.Zillah Bridger.Carrie Coxe.Rowena Daniel.

Blanche Ferebee.Essie Gardner.

Mimie Anderson.Sadie Bridger.Camelia Brooks.Carrie Coxe.Gertrude Cree.

Blanche Ferebee.Dora Grady.

Grace Bland.Mabel Bowen.Zillah Bridger.Ethel Byrd.Rowena Daniel.Louise Elliott.

Huldah Latta.

Huldah Latta.

Preparatory Arithmetic.

Al.exine Knott. Ethel Yancey.

Junior Arithmetic.

Eugenia Humphries.Ina Huntley.Annie Jenkins.Florence James.Vistula James.Mabel Kelly.Rosa Lawrence.Hallie Roller.

Mamie Royster.

Senior Arithmetic.

Dora Grady.Pearle Harper.Jdella Herring.Dixie Hester.Daisey Huntley.Carrilena Mangum.Ozella Mangum.Hettie Mize.Luzie Moss.

Junior Algebra.

Idella Herring.Dixie Hester.Vistula James.Mabel Kelly.

Minnie Moring.Luzie Moss.Cora Phipps.

Senior Algebra.

Essie Gardner.Verna Goode.Pearle Harper.Hester Kent.Wilma Long.Mamie O'Brian.

Myrtle Shamberger.Olivette Teale.

Edna White.Lilla Whitley.Beatrice Willard.Eva Wynne.Annie Belle Yancey.Carrie Youngblood.

Jessie Perkinson.Mamie Powell.Mattie Riggs.Sallie Royster.Bertha Sawyer.Edna Spencer.Lizzie Traynham.Lillie Wynne.

Mamie Powell.S'ailie Royster.Myrtle Shamberger.Mary Stevens.Mary Whitakcr.Lillie Wynne.

Mabel Stallings.

Mary White.Addie Wright.Mary Wright.Helen Wynne.

Geometry.

May Peele.

Trigonometry.

May Peele.

Oxford Seminary. 37

Grammar and Composition.

Bettie Barwick.tSula Broughton.Pearle Cheatham.Amelia Clayton.Mary Dean.Lillian Fields.

Mamie Anderson.Foy Baucom.Mary Bennette.Lizzie Bennett.Mabel Bowen.Sadie Bridger.Camelia Brooks.Pearle Browning.Helen Chandler.Enna Cheek.Katie Cobb.Fearle Cobb.Carrie Coxe.Gertrude Cree.Rowena Daniel.Louise Elliott.

Lizzie Hancock.

Florence James.Vistula James.Rosa Lawrence.Hallie Roller.

Mamie Royster.

Grammar and Rhetoric.

Blanche Ferebee.Lillian Fields.

Essie Gardner.Maidie Gatling.

Dora Grady.Pearle Harper.Idella Herring.Bessie Hester.Daisy Huntley.Ina Huntley.Annie Jenkins.Ola Jones.Mabel Kelly.Carrilena Mangum.Ozella Mangum.Minnie Moring.

Preparatory English.

Alexine Knott.

Edna White.Beatrice Willard.Eva Wynne.Annie Belle Yancey.Carrie Youngblood.

Luzie Moss.Jessie Perkinson.Mamie Powell.Mattie Riggs.

Sallie Royster.Burma Sanderford.Bertha Sawyer.Myrtle Shamberger.Edna Spencer.Mary Stevens.Olivette Teale.

Anna Townsend.Beatrice Willard.Mary Whitaker.Lilla Whitley.Lillie Wynne.

Ethel Yancey.

Rhetoric and American Literature.

Verna Goode.Jennie Hardaway.Lizzie Liles.

Wilma Long.Neilie Macmillan.

Huldah Latta.Blanche Royall.

Mary Bennette.Grace Bland.Mabel Bowen.Camelia Brooks.Pearle Cobb.Louise Elliott.

Lillian Fields.

Mamie O'Brian.Isabel Parham.Ida Powell.Anna Speas.Eloise Taylor.

English Literature.

May Peele.

First French.

Bessie Hester.Dixie Hester.Daisey Huntley.Ina Huntley.Lizzie Liles.

Mamie Luther.Neilie Macmillan.

Lizzie Traynham.Annie Townsend.Mary White.Mary Wright.

Annie Pearle Shore.

Minnie Moring.Mamie O'Brian.Ida Stainback.Mary Stevens.Eloise Taylor.Lizzie Traynham.Mary Whitaker.

3S Oxford Seminary.

Lizzie Bennett.Rowena Daniel.

Verna Goode.Jennie Hardaway.

Mamie Anderson.Camelia Brooks.Sula Broughton.Helen Chandler.Pearle Cheatham.Amelia Clayton.Katie Cobb.Carrie Coxe.

Ethel Byrd.Louise Elliott.

Bessie Hester.Dixie Hester.Daisey Huntley.

Sadie Bridger.Pearle Browning.Rowena Daniel.

Lizzie Bennett.Mabel Bowen.Essie Gardner.Verna Goode.Jennie Hardaway.Pearle Harper.

Mabel Goode.

Mabel Goode.

Junior French.

Sallie House.Wilma Long.Label Parham.Ida Powell.

Senior French.

Mabel Goode.

Preparatory Latin.

Blanche Ferebee.Dora Grady.Idella Herring.Annie Jenkins.Mabel Kelly.

Rosa Lawrence.Minnie Moring.Jessie Perkinson.

First Latin.

Ina Huntley.Mabel Kelly.Luzie Moss.Cora Phipps.Mamie Powell.

Second Latin.

Hester Kent.Mamie O'Brian.Burma Sanderford.

Junior Latin.

Sallie House.Lizzie Liles.

Wilma Long.Mamie Luther.Neilie Macmillan.

Senior Latin.

Iluldah Latta.

Anna Speas.Mabel Stallings.

Addie Wright.

Mattie Riggs.Hallie Roller.

Mamie Royster.Edna Spencer.Myrtle Shamberger.Edna White.Beatrice Willard.Lillie Wynne.

Sallie Royster.Bertha Sawyer.Ida Stainback.Anna Townsend.Bessie Twyne.

Mary Stevens.Mary Whitaker.

Mabel Stallings.

Eloise Taylor.Lizzie Traynham.Mary White.Mary Wright.

Blanche Royall.

Logic.

Iluldah Latta.

Iluldah Latta.Blanche Royall.

Psychology.

Lizzie Liles. May Peele.

Oxford Seminary, 39

Bettie Barwick.Mary Dean.Lizzie Hancock.Vistula James.

Ethel Byrd.Camelia Brooks.Helen Chandler.Dora Grady.Dixie Hester.Daisey Huntley.Lizzie Liles.

Camelia Brooks.Dixie Hester.Daisey Huntley.

Mabel Goode.Ida Powell.

Mary Bennette.Amelia Clayton.

Lizzie Bennett.Zillah Bridger.Ethel Byrd.Verna Goode.Huldah Latta.

Grace Bland.Mabel Goode.Sallie House.Huldah Latta.

Bettie Barwick.Helen Chandler.Pearle Cheatham.Blanche Ferebee.

Annie Jenkins.

Mabel Kelly.

United States History.

Florence James.Alexine Knott.Ozella Mangum.Carrilena Mangum.

English Histoiy.

Neilie Macmillan.Luzie Moss.May Peele.

Cora Phipps.Mattie Biggs.Blanche Royall.Sallie Royster.

French History.

May Peele.

Blanche Royall.

Senior History.

Huldah Latta.

Physiology.

Rowena Daniel.Lizzie Liles.

Zoology.

Wilma Long.Isabel Parham.Cora Phipps.Mamie Powell.Mattie Riggs.

Physics.

Lizzie Liles.

Mamie Luther.May Peele.

Physical Geography.

Xeilie Macmillan.Minnie Moring.Jessie Perkinson.Hallie Roller.

Mamie Royster.

Olivette Teale.

Eva Wynne.Ethel Yancey.

Burma Sanderford.Bertha Sawyer.Edna Spencer.Olivette Teale.

Lizzie Traynham.Lillie Wynne.

Edna Spencer.Mabel Stallings.

Mamie Luther.

Mamie O'Brian.

Mabel Stallings.

Anna Townsend.Mary White.Beatrice Willard.

Anna Speas.Eloise Taylor.Mary White.

Olivette Teale.

Beatrice Willard.Edna White.Eva Wynne.Annie Belle Yancev.

List of Graduates

From 1881 to 1904.

The present President assumed charge of Oxford Seminary in 1880,

and following is the list of tiie graduates during his administration.

It is to be regretted that the records of the school from its establish-

ment in 1850 are not at hand.We have tried to make the list as accurate as possible, and if

those interested will point out any inaccuracies in the present ad-

dresses of graduates, we will esteem it a favor. In many cases wedo not remember the married names.

1881.

Full Graduates.

Anna J. Hunter (Mrs. J. S. Hardaway, Newnan, Ga.)Mary T. Parham (Mrs. J. W. Watson).*Pattie R. Holley (Mrs. Dr. J. M. Hays).*Mattie A. Crawford (Mrs )

.

In Vocal Music.Anna J. Hunter.

1882.

Full Graduates.

Pattie W. Winborne, Barnitz, Chowan County, N. C.

Mamie D. Harrison (Mrs. A. Mitchell, Frank'linton, N. C).

In Vocal Music.

Lou McClammy (Mrs. Dr. Lodge, Limestone College, S. C).

1883.

Lillian Watson (Mrs. J. T. Alderman, Henderson).Rosa Jones (Mrs. C. G. Jones, Danville, Va.).Maggie Nutt (Mrs. D. W. Herring).*Blance Wood (Mrs. L. F. Pearce, Windsor).

1884.

Full Graduates.

Sallie A. Hunt (Mrs. J. C. Davis, Oxford, N. C).

English Graduates.

Tempe II. Williams (Mrs. Geo. Frothingham, Quincy, Mass.).Marian Marsh.

Deceased.

Oxfoed Seminary. 41

1S85.

Full Graduates.

Minnie L. Jones, Reidsville, N. C.

Maggie Livingston (Mrs. Wm, Fields, Leaksville, N. C).Anna W. Landis, Oxford, N. C.

Mollie Lucas (Mrs. J. A. Beam, Bethel Hill, N. C).

English Graduates.

Lottie W. Harris (Mrs. Peed, Wake Forest, N. C).Sallie Hockaday ( Mrs. Grissom )

.

Fannie P. Jeffress (Mrs. Geo. Gill, Wake Forest, N. C.).

Lula Randolph ( Mrs. Eugene Currin, Sydney, Australia )

.

Lela Routen, Oxford, N. C.

Lucy L. Tatum, Farmington, N. C.

Lillian Yarboro.*18S6.

Full Graduates.

Lizzie Hobgood (Mrs. F. W. Hancock, Oxford, N. C.)

Sallie Devin (Mrs. Dr. S. H. Cannady, Oxford, N. C.)

In Piano Music.Lizzie Hobgood.

1887.

Full Graduates.Lizzie Etheridge.*Lucy Ranes (Mrs. Wm. Woody, Bethel Hill, N. C).Sallie Hobgood (Mrs. Geo. Knott, Kinston, N. C.).

Hettie Hobgood (Mrs. Thos. Jeffress, Rocky Mount, 1ST. C).

English Graduates.

Alberta Newton (Mrs ).*

Sallie Hunt (Mrs. John Satterwhite, Oak Hill, N. C).

1888.

Full Graduates.

Fannie Cozart, Durham, N. C.

Bessie Hunter (Mrs , Neuse, N. C. )

.

Lillie Hunter (Mrs , Neuse, N. C. )

.

1889.

Full Graduates.

Ora Bizzell (Mrs. Grady, La Grange, N. C.).

English Graduates.

Leone Graves (Mrs. John Vann, Winston, N. C.).

Ha Spainhour (Mrs. Chas. Holman, Wilkesboro, N. C. ).

Birdie Watson, Henderson, N. C.Ella Yarborough, Semora, N. C.

* Deceased.

42 Oxford Seminary.

1S90.

Sallie Street (Mrs. D. Morris, Roxboro, N. C).Evie Street, Mill Creek, N. C.

Nettie Beckwith (Mrs )

.

Ethel Herring (Mrs )

.

English Graduates.

Mary Emma Faulkner (Mrs. Jas. Long).Lillie Bowling (Mrs. Jones).Annie Carlton (Mrs. W. S. Olive, Apex, N. C).Nannie Lou Merritt (Mrs. G. T. Watkins, Roxboro, N. C).Lonie Kronheimer (Mrs. Oestricher) .*

1891.

Full Graduates.

Lonie Currin (Mrs. W. C. Tyree, Raleigh, N. C).Pollie Kerr (Mrs. Dr. Spencer, Danville, Va. ).

Minnie Rogers (Mrs. J. G. Blalock, Whiteville, N. C).Florence Leslie, Manly, N. C.

Annie Hobgood, Oxford, N. C.

Corinne Bowling, Durham, N. C.

Ida Bowling.Mittie Carlton (Mrs. Claude Johnson, Durham, N. C).

1892.

English Graduates.

Maggie Howard (Mrs. W. H. Blalock, Culbreth, N. C).Susie Blalock (Mrs. J. F. Meadows, Oxford, N. C).Cornie Petty (Mrs. T. P. Jerman, Raleigh, N. C).Pattie Bass, Cunningham, N. C.

Willie Harris (Mrs , Seaboard, N. C).

Piano Music.Lonie Currin.Cornie Petty.

In Vocal Music.Cornie Petty.

In the year 1893 the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) andBachelor of Letters (B.L. ) began to be conferred.

1893.

Bachelors of Arts.

Eva Carlton (Mrs. Coley Matthews, Richmond, Va. ).

Marie Dennis ( Mrs , Enfield, N. C. )

,

Stella Jenkins (Mrs. Robeson, Goldsboro, N. C).Loula Long (Mrs. Uzzcll, Wilson's Mills, N. C).

Deceased.

Oxford Seminary. 43

Bachelors of Letters.

Ruth Ferebee, Oxford, N. C.

Pearl Tuck (Mrs. Wm. Amis, Virgilina, Va.).

Graduate in Vocal and Instrumental Music.

Marie Dennis.Graduates in Art.

Hettie Elliott (Mrs. Sizemore, Oxford, N. C).Mary Holt ( Mrs. John Gooch )

.*

Ella Petty (Mrs. Ella Waddell, Atlanta, Ga.).

1895.


Bessie Pritchard (Mrs. Thos. F. Hardison, Wadesboro, N. C.).

Lillie Shanks, Williamsboro, N. C.*

Piano Music.

Edna Hudson, Apex, N. C.

Carrie Hobgood, Oxford, N. C.

Fannie Kronheimer (Mrs. Maurice, Durham, N. C).

1896.

Bachelors of Arts.

Mamie Crews (Mrs. Dr. B. B. Drewry, Drewrysville, Va.).*Maude Freeman, Wake Forest, N. C.

Lollie Sandling, Clinton, N. C.


Berta Bell, Pollocksville, N. C.

Hallie Jackson (Mrs. T. H. Lacy, Louisburg, N. C).

In Piano Music.

Bessie Crews (Mrs. Dr. B. B. Drewry, Drewrysville, Va. ).

Maude Freeman, Wake Forest, N". C.

Janie Lacy, Oxford, N. C.

Pattie Olive (Mrs. Dr. Black).

In Art.Eva Moss, Moss, N. C.

Pressie Poteat (Mrs )

.

1897.

Bachelors of Arts.

Janie Lacy, Oxford, N. C.Sara Parham, Oxford, N. C.


Phoebe Knott (Mrs. Robert Burnett, Oxford, N. C).Nannie Kelly (Mrs. A. P. Burgin, Asheville, N. O).

* Deceased.

44 Oxfoed Seminary.

Piano.

Sara Parham, Oxford, N. C.

1898.

Bachelors of Arts.

Kate Smith (Mrs. McCleod, Lurnberton, N. G).Janie Dew (Mrs. Drayton Kinard, Latta, S. C).Annie Belle DeVane, Bed Springs, N. C.


Edna Hudson, Apes, N. C.

Maggie Elmore (Mrs ).*

Nannie Harman ( Mrs , Rutherfordton, N. C. )

.

Annie Gooch, Oxford, N. C.

In Art.

Olivia Cheatham, Oxford, N. C.

Pauline Page, Morrisville, N. C.

Zula Tomlinson, Clayton, N. C.

1899.


Foy Allen (Mrs. Dr. Sawyer, Elizabeth City, N. C).Mary Brewer (Mrs. J. H. Gore, Wilmington, N. C. ).

Annie Cheek (Mrs. E. Womble, Ore Hill, N. C.)

Annie Cannady, Oxford, N. C.

Susie Gooch (Mrs. T. L. Caudle, Wadesboro, N. C).

1900.


Clyde Dowell (Mrs. Powell).Lois Christian, Durham, N. C.

Elizabeth Council, Chatham County, N. C.

Francis Etta Parker, Raleigh, N. C.

Jane Elizabeth Taylor, Wake Forest, N. C.

1901.

Bachelor of Arts.

Jessie Lee Hobgood, Oxford, N. C.

Elizabeth Pace Lewellyn, Raleigh, N. C.

Annie Rachel Rogers, Oak Hill, N. C.


Loue Nicie Bridger (Mrs. Powell, Henderson, N. C. ).

Annie Iola Hilliard (Mrs. Siceler, High Point, N. C).Mary Rebecca Oliver, Dalton, N. C.

Lydia Pasmore, Cary, N. C.

Sara Elizabeth Taylor, Leaksville, N. C.

* Deceased.

Oxfohd Seminary. 45

1902.

Bachelor, of Arts.

Sue Adelia Kelly, Dabney, N. C.

Bachelors of Letters,

Elizabeth Estelle Dorsey (Mrs. W. M. Guliek, Washington, D. C).Alice Estelle Hilliard, High Point, N. C.

Norfleet Hunter.1903.

Bachelors of Arts.

Zelma Bland, Burgaw, N. C.

Estelle Davis, Elisha, N. C.

Pansy Greene, Lenoir, N. C.

Rennie Peele, Mullins, S. C.


Elsie Lee Cousins, Alchie, Va.Mamie DeCormis, Shawboro, N. C.

Emma Pegram, Stem, N. C.

Vocal Music.

Mary Warren Brooks, Greensboro, N. C.

Art.Annie Penny.

1904.

Bachelor of Arts.

Huldah Latta, Oxford, N. C.


Mabel Goode, Mooresboro, N. C.May Peele, Mullins, S. C.

Blanche Boyall, Yadkinville, N. C.

Testimonials.

Opinions of Our Work by Representative Men.

One reason why I believe so thoroughly in the Oxford Seminary, is

because it turns out the best types of old-fashioned Southern woman-hood. This has been the result of my observation, and I have knownscores who were educated amid its elevating and refining influences.

Its able and honored President knows how to avail himself of all

really valuable new ideas in education. But, being wisely conserva-tive, he does not adopt untried fads. He trains the young ladies

committed to him to be home-makers rather than bread-winners, andfor one, I am glad of it.

Another reason: Thorough work is done in the class-rooms. Theinstructors are competent, experienced and faithful. There is plentyof sham in the education of young women. I do not think there ia

any of it at Oxford. The education imparted there is solid, not afancy veneering.

Best of all, this honest work is done in an atmosphere which is sat-

urated with the spirit of the Gospel of Christ. Young women whohave the privilege of spending several terms at the Oxford Seminarycan not fail to have true conceptions of Christ and exalted views of

Christianity.

Chas. E. Taylor,President W. F. College.

I have sincere respect for the Oxford Seminary, N. C. In Prof.

F. P. Hobgood it has an admirable presiding officer. To his charm-ing and sterling qualities as a Christian gentleman he adds a geniusfor afi'airs, a rare tact in government, and generally broad views onthe subject of Woman's Education. He gathers around him strongand skilled teachers, and does his work under the convictions of agood Christian conscience. He has done excellent service as an edu-cator, and is still at it, growing with the passing years in experienceand influence. Wm. E. Hatcher,

Pastor Grace St. Baptist Church, Richmond, Va.

One of the best schools in our State for the education of girls is

the Oxford Seminary, presided over by Prof. F. P. Hobgood. I havehad frequent opportunities in the years past to see the work donethere put to a practical test. Some of the brightest and best-quali-

fied women now filling positions of honor and trust were educated inthis institution. The long experience of Professor Hobgood in thisline admirably fits him for the position he occupies.

H. A. Brown,Pastor First Baptist Church, Winston.

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I have had opportunity of seeing something of the inside workingsof Oxford Seminary: (1) The personnel of the faculty is distin-

guished for its high, broad culture, and its balance and symmetry.Youth, with its enthusiasm, maturity with its accuracy, are beauti-

fully blended in the corps of instructors. (2) An expensive expert

is at the head of each distinct department. (3) The equipment in

amplitude of grounds, in comfortable buildings and rooms, in appa-

ratus and library, form marked features of the school. (4) The up-

to-date curriculum and the latest improved methods of instruction

stand out in contrast with institutions where they merely "keepschool." (5) The discipline is firm, parental and personal, indica-

ting that there is law but for the sake of more abundant life.

Calvin S. Blackwell,Pastor First Baptist Church, Wilmington, N. C.

. . . Your school is a joy to all who know it. I could but notethe easy grace of demeanor and Christian ladyship—far better thanthe title of kings and queens. There was something in the atmos-phere of the school which enveloped and charmed me. And I haveno doubt that others, if not all, felt it. My attention was called to

the dignified yet natural manner of the young ladies in church andin the chapel. No silliness nor girlish folly of demeanor.

[From private letter by] Dk. Thos. E. Skinner,Kaleigh, N. C.

President Hobgood has ever held with the force of conviction thateducation is only the handmaid of religion, to be dominated by it andnot to dominate. And so he has been careful at all times to bringhis pupils into contact with those agencies and influences whichcreate and foster familiar and loving acquaintance with the noblestof the sciences, the knowledge of Jesus. He is a constant and enthu-siastic student of the Bible, and also a gifted and successful teacherof that best of all works. . . .

The Baptists of North Carolina and North Carolina herself maywell honor the teacher who has sacrificed to his vocation all otherambitions, consecrated to it all his talents and attainments, and laid

his whole life upon its altar.

J. D. Hueham,Henderson, N. V. In Biblical Recorder, Dec. 8, 1897.

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